5 months ago
- Red Wings
- Published: Dec. 29, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
DETROIT – Simon Edvinsson took a changeable disconnected nan broadside of his correct knee while connected nan punishment termination midway done nan 2nd play and collapsed. He tried respective times to get up and get backmost successful nan play and moreover managed to deflect a changeable while connected his knees.
He yet had to beryllium helped disconnected nan ice, and it didn’t look for illustration he was coming backmost anytime soon.
He returned 2 minutes later. And bully for nan Detroit Red Wings because Edvinsson capped his singular resurrection by scoring astatine 1:46 of overtime successful a 3-2 triumph complete nan Toronto Maple Leafs astatine Little Caesars Arena.
“He roseate from nan dormant and came backmost and scored an unbelievable goal,” teammate Mason Appleton said. “That was a gutsy effort, and it’s benignant of a bully karma point really he gets rewarded astatine nan extremity pinch that overtime winner.”
The Red Wings (23-14-3, 49 points) maintained first spot successful nan Atlantic Division pursuing their 3rd OT triumph successful 4 games and their 3rd triumph successful 3 tries against a section rival.
Edvinsson turned successful an all-around beardown performance, logging 25:57 while paired pinch Moritz Seider and matched up against Toronto’s apical statement led by Auston Matthews.
“Well, he’s 1 of our champion shot-blockers and he’s sewage specified a large assemblage and scope that he ever seems to get thing successful nan statement of nan puck astatine slightest whether it’s a stick,” coach Todd McLellan said. “You saw that aft he was down for nan count. He’s still sewage a instrumentality connected (a shot), but he sewage (hit) successful a spot wherever everything benignant of went numb and he needed a small spot of clip to get immoderate emotion backmost successful that leg. And erstwhile it came back, he was bully to go. Played a hellhole of a game.”
Edvinson amazed himself by returning truthful soon.
“I thought for judge thing was off,” he said. “I couldn’t consciousness my ft aliases my knee, from nan knee and down, and deed immoderate nerves aliases something.
“I didn’t cognize what I was doing location for a while. But I felt thing touch my instrumentality and location was nan puck and past I was conscionable trying to laic connected nan puck for a while. So, it was a batch happening that shift.”
Said Appleton: “Me and (Michael Rasmussen) look each other, like, ‘Oh my God, he’s back.’ ”
What happened down nan scenes to get him backmost almost immediately?
“Oh, that’s immoderate magical worldly from nan trainers backmost there,” Edvinsson said. I’m not going to dispersed nan rumor astir that, but that’s each in installments to them for being speedy and helping maine get backmost there.”
Edvinsson described his extremity arsenic opportunistic.
Goaltender Dennis Hildeby stopped a changeable from Patick Kane and tried to clear nan rebound, but nan puck didn’t get retired of nan zone. Edvinsson corralled it, moved astir Mattias Maccelli, trim successful beforehand of nan nett and scored his 5th extremity of nan play pinch a backhand shot.
“He’s sewage offense,” McLellan said. “Sometimes I wish he would sprout much because he sewage a really bully shot. He loads it astatine nan bluish statement and past he’s fresh to shoot. But he’s still looking for each these options. If he’d conscionable rip them each now and then, I deliberation he’d people a fewer much goals.
“His game’s going to evolve. I’m really gladsome that he’s defending arsenic good arsenic he is pinch Mo. They eat a batch of minutes up, and immoderate discourtesy we tin get from either of those 2 is simply a bonus.”
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